Critics say NASA's optimismamounted to a deliberate distortion of the budget figures in...

[anchor] Critics say NASA's optimism
amounted to a deliberate distortion of the budget figures in an attempt
to get Congress enmeshed in the program, a technique known in Washington
as "buying in." We really don't honestly
apologize for that because most every airplane system
and space program system that I've been involved with
in my 35 years… You don't see all the detailed problems
in the beginning that you see later